Re: HOWTO: Install Aptana IDE

I was able to install Aptana with no issues on Feisty 7.04. I wrote a quick How to on the Aptana forums. Obviously as you all know in the new Feisty repositories the Mozilla and libswt3.1-gtk-java seem to be missing. This can be solved by simply grabbing them from the edgy repositories. It creates no conflicts and everything is seamless from there. Here's how I did it.

Re: HOWTO: Install Aptana IDE

Re: HOWTO: Install Aptana IDE

I'm not sure its all about speed. I tried the eclipse plugin and didn't see the ability to have a ftp / sftp session. I rely on it pretty heavily myself so I needed Aptana. Also, I simply like Aptana more. There are a few differences that I find important. (yes I know they look a lot alike).

The point though is to have the option of either or. Because, after all, isn't Linux all about the ability to customize your environment to your taste?

Re: HOWTO: Install Aptana IDE

Hi all.

Sorry for the dealy in my response. I had the page of my previous post bookmarked, and checked it daily. What I didn't realise, is that my post was the last post on the page, and any replies were added to page 3... I only found that out today. Man, do I feel dumb!(?)

I actually have both eclipse (with Aptana plugin), and Aptana standalone. As Aptana is aimed at Web development, it's very useful to me. However, I am starting to get into Java, so Eclipse is becoming quite useful to me also. I am still convinced that that standalone verion of Aptana is more lightweight, faster and less error prone than the plugin version. Also, as it contains reference manuals for JavaScript, CSS, HTML and the likes I can't complain.

I know I can find these references online, but having them stored on your machine makes things a lot faster, especially when you're impatient like me.

For Web developers who don't already know this, Adobe have made a nice plugin called JSEclipse. It's still in the Beta stage, but offers a few nice features that Aptana does not. You can find out more about JSEclipse here. You do need to sign up, but you won't get spam if you don't want it, JSEclipse works well with Eclipse, Eclipse with the Aptana plugin and Aptana standalone.

Re: HOWTO: Install Aptana IDE

New to Linux, and having aptana drama.

Installed Aptana with some shell script I cannot find again again. It may have been dated. Anyway, everything worked fine, UNTIL I decided to make a new workspace outside the aptana folder. THEN I get that error telling me to see the metadata/log file.

Can someone explain the steps clearly? I have the Java 1.6 and the most recent firefox. What now?

Sorry I am a newb.. but. well.. I'm a newb. If you can clearly post this here, I would gladly post it in the aptana forum where this issue seems to be raging, as well.

Re: HOWTO: Install Aptana IDE

If you wish to use either Eclipse or Aptana without ruby/rails support you can just install as per the 1000s of other posts on the matter, and you shouldn't have any issues.

For some reason the RDT/Rails Plugins don't like gij and although they appear to be installed, are not available from within the IDE.

Under normal circumstances sudo update-alternatives --config java should resolve any issues with multiple command choices. (i.e. 3 versions of java all executed with the synax java)

However, the command Eclipse is actually a shell script that looks for a environment variable called JAVA_HOME set to your preferred jvm. In the event it isn't set it looks through the default jvm directory (/usr/lib/jvm) for the first jvm that is compatible, since gij is installed by default in *buntu, and G("gij-wrapper") comes before S ("sun-java") it is always chosen.

I prefer installing Eclipse (via Synaptic or sudo apt-get install eclipse) due to the fact that it's available from a repository so I don't have to worry about where all of its bits and pieces are installed, but to each their own.

Now for the Magic!!!

First we install the Sun version of Java:

Code:

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk

Finally we set our environment variable to the sun java so when Eclipse/Aptana start up, they use our preferred JVM:

Code:

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre

TADA!!!

I hope this was useful to someone, this is the first tutorial I've written.....
I apologize for the length of my post, however, posting the resolution without explanation does no one any good. So this post is for all my peeps out in nooB-land!!!